5m-ge future engine mods?

[mechrider89]

Just cleaned up parts and such today and measured my head studs, some had about 2mm stretch in them I just hope I can still use them. Also found out the whole felpro seal kit I bought is missing a lot of gaskets which is a huge let down. To add to that my cam towers need some serious machining looks like shavings got in between the cam and races in the towers, but the lobes for the rocker arms are perfect.


Worst one, felt litterly like sand paper, yet the cam wasn't to bad.


before

after

Figured well I had the top of the engine off I'd also take the time to give the block and engine bay a nice scrub (its filthy), get some before and after pics of that to.

[CanadianBak'inSupra]

looks good keep up the good work!

[mechrider89]

ok well since I've been very lazy with the updates I'm just going to plaster everything up.
I got my head from the machine shop last weekend and was impressed with the price, it only cost $189.00. They resurfaced it a 0.006 ,cleaned it up, pressure tested it and installed new valve seals. But when I got to unwrapping my head (lol) the clean job was complete shit and still had rust, old gasket material, and carbon in the exhaust ports. So I spent and extra 2 hours cleaning it more instead of bolting it up and I was pissed off about it. Also got them to look at my cams and cam towers and they said they were in great shape. But continuing on I was waiting on parts till this monday so I couldn't really assemble much but now I'm at the home stretch. I had a little trouble timing the engine but I got it right after an hour, painted up my valve covers to (not my color of choice but its all they had) hope you guys like it. I've got everything back on and bolted up except for the oil pressure regulator, vacuum lines, accessory belts, clutch fan and shroud.
with out further ado here's the pic's:

[mechrider89]

stupid upload limit


Will take a pic tomorrow morning quickly to show where its at right now.

[CanadianBak'inSupra]

looks good and nice work on the valve covers.

[mechrider89]

thanx man!

Well I finished her off today and added my coolant then went to start it........it wouldn't start!
So I checked for spark and had that, checked fuel and i have fuel to the rail then I rechecked my timing and all was good. so then I started checking over everything else double checking everything was connected and all vacuum lines were on, once again everything checked out. Tried to start it again and noticed it was back firing out of the intake, which means it has to be timing! So I checked again and again still good......I'm at a lose.

[87hilux7mge]

how about dizzy timing? and have you done a compression test? sucks if the motor is dry and no oil pressure has been built, but you could always prime it, retime it then do a compression test..

thats ruff man, i hate when that crap happens and have definitely suffered through it.